On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> our Internet Draft/RFC appears to be done. now comes the fun part :)
> there is quite a lot of software out there that supports metalink3.
>
> here's what supports metalink4:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion/web/internetdraft

add SmartFTP to the list of meta4 clients.

aria2 (1.9.0)
DownThemAll 2.0 beta
Metalink Checker 5.0 - Will autodetect v3 and v4 format files and do
complete conversions in both directions.
Metalink Editor 1.3 - Will open v3 and v4 format files and do complete
conversions in both directions.
MirrorBrain (2.13 in development)
SmartFTP 4.0 Build 1120
Web service to do minimal conversions for old clients.


> what other metalink enabled apps should we focus on short/mid term?
> probably the generating apps, so people have a way to make the new
> metalinks...
>
> Bram's metalink tools?
> libmetalink?
> metalink-library?

what's possible/necessary next?

support in browsers will bring metalink's benefits to more people.
Firefox & Chrome are ready to add support, we just need somebody to
code it up. anyone? I think Chrome would be best to start on. I saw
that Safari supports extensions, but they sound pretty limited.

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